A little warning for you: this post is a rant. Sigh.
This week we were “treated” to a new clip show instead of a new episode of Lost. I don’t understand who the target audience is for these clip shows, which ABC seems to be in love with. Are they targeted to serious fans of the series? If that’s the case, I don’t get it, because we don’t need clip shows to tell us what’s going on. Is it supposed to be for new or returning fans of the show? If so, I still don’t get it. Who in their right mind is going to decide that the best time to catch up on a program is right in the middle of the season, with only a handful of episodes left? It makes no sense, particularly in this day and age when DVDs of popular shows (as well as online viewing) are so prevalent and easy to acquire.
Usually, I don’t mind the clip shows. Honestly, I don’t. I find them to be somewhat helpful at the beginning of a new season. Occasionally, they can even be insightful when Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof host them. This week’s clip show was neither enlightening, insightful, informative, nor even entertaining.
It would have been one thing if the clip show focused on some of the more interesting, and confusing, aspects of the season so far, such as the time travel elements. I would have loved to have heard Cuse and Lindelof talk about the time traveling that was happening in the beginning of the season and discuss the “rules” that they have set up. I think that could have made for a clip show that was worth watching.
Instead, we were forced to put up with an hour of retelling the story of the Oceanic Six, perhaps the most boring part of this season. Whose idea was that? I think I would have preferred to just get a rerun of one of the previous episodes from this season. The show is complicated, we know this, and I think I could have gotten more out of rewatching one episode, start to finish, than I did out of this clip show. Just cut it out, ABC, there’s no need. Save yourself the trouble and give the clip shows a rest.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Apr 27, 2009 @ 10:05 EST5EDT
it’s called greed … this way the network can string the fans along for an extra month of advertisements with little or no cost to themselves.
then again … these are the same networks that are surprised when a new show gets a 6 month break midway in the first season and then wonder why the audience doesn’t come back (see Jericho, et al)
*POST AUTHOR*
It’s true, but couldn’t they achieve the same thing with a repeat? I mean, it must cost money to put together a clip show.
*shrug*
At least there’s a new ep this week.
100% ACK Bob. I don’t get it. Time Travel would’ve been a great choice :-/